From: xmlblog@...
Date: 2005-06-30T02:20:50+09:00
Subject: Re: ASP.NET vs Ruby on Rails

Jon does a great job of outlining more of ASP.NET's strengths. ASP.NET
is still my bread and butter and a really capable platform and I didn't
mean to sound so down on it, but as he illustrates in his anecdote, the
mass-market model of ASP.NET is not the model I want for my code. This
doesn't mean I haven't been able to do things my way, only that it was
more work than Rails makes it to do the same thing. I also had a
similar experience in terms of "having more fun" building with Rails.

As for the IDE discussion, I think both NetBeans and Eclipse are
bloated, unnatural beasts but that is totally a value statement. Since
I also don't do any professional Java work, I'm not qualified as an
expert evaluator so that's just my $.02. John also mentioned one of the
areas in which Visual Studio kicks the living **** out of all the other
IDEs I've seen: debugging. Whether you love or hate Microsoft, spend a
few hours with the VS debugger and a few hours without and I'm
convinced you'll have to give them their due credit.